Disposing of used blades

**Gunney** · 01-03-2012, 01:35 PM

I used an empty coke bottle. I used my jack knife to make a slit, into which I can drop blades. I also put in a little mouthwash to make it look a little less disgusting! lol.

However you can just as easy get a buck blade bank...

**packersfan117** · 01-03-2012, 01:54 PM

I took a small matchbox, the kind that holds 32 of the small matches, and stick the blades in there. When it's full, I put duct tape around it and throw it away.

**Go West Young Man** · 01-03-2012, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by luvmysuper

They make chewing gum containers designed for car cup holders now?
I'm amazed. Love to see a pic.

The only cup holder I have is on my computer, though it isn't very practical. I don't even know why they put it there.

http://www.wrigley.com/global/brands/eclipse.aspx

Click the 5th picture, and the description is under '2006'.

**luvmysuper** · 01-03-2012, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by Go West Young Man

http://www.wrigley.com/global/brands/eclipse.aspx

Click the 5th picture, and the description is under '2006'.

Wow.
Guess you gotta have something where the ashtrays used to go, right?

I'll have to go check one out in person and check the dimensions.
Thanks for the link.

**Go West Young Man** · 01-03-2012, 05:02 PM

It's a nice idea, but not exactly convenient since you can't use your cupholders anymore.

**Trumanj** · 01-04-2012, 07:01 AM

Originally Posted by Go West Young Man

It's a nice idea, but not exactly convenient since you can't use your cupholders anymore.

Yea i don't use it in my car but like the size of the container to keep at my work desk. It's amazing how much leeway you are given when you provide gum to your coworkers. :)

**Vanderveckyn** · 01-04-2012, 05:01 PM

Well the blue "piggy bank" gets me some interesting comments!

**GearHead_1** · 02-04-2012, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by MPacker

Thanks everyone for your replies. I think that I am going to do the tin can and recycle. I love the idea of a slot in the wall, and because it was mentioned twice I'm beginning to think you guys are serious lol

Yeah, it's the real deal. Back in the late 80's, at that point as a confirmed bachelor, I bought my starter home which was a new pre-fab factory built home. It came with slots in the medicine cabinets for blades even though DE razors were a considered by many to be a bit out of fashion.

**rxonmymind** · 02-04-2012, 06:53 PM

I just picked this one up from an estate sale..

**velocityboy** · 02-04-2012, 08:48 PM

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**Mendel** · 02-05-2012, 08:45 PM

Awhile back, I was at Lowes for furnace filters and saw these little containers. I believe it was $1.99 or $2.99. Thick, unbreakable plastic. Top has slit; allows for easy disposal of blade. Also, container doesn't rust.

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**Kramerica** · 02-06-2012, 08:29 AM

Feather blade bank. 1$ at most vendors. Order 5 the next time you order something. They hold about 2 years of blades based on my experience so far. You're set for 10 years.

I don't have time for a BBAD. It would interfere with my NOSVBAD and SSAD and RAD.

**jcwit** · 02-06-2012, 09:09 AM

I use an empty plastic .22 rimfire cartridge box. The kind with the sliding top.

**Vanderveckyn** · 02-06-2012, 02:16 PM

I'm using a bright blue piggy bank as someone suggested. Gets a few good laughs and only a buck!!

**badgerRN** · 04-07-2012, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by Vanderveckyn

I'm using a bright blue piggy bank as someone suggested. Gets a few good laughs and only a buck!!

They were selling those for a buck at Dollar Tree, so prety inxpensive. I just taped the cap at the bottom shut with some duct tape.

**gtuck** · 04-07-2012, 06:22 PM

Altoids metal box. When filled, it's taped shut and recycled.

**seizure** · 04-07-2012, 08:02 PM

I throw mine off the balcony at people.

(Or I put them in a can and recycle it when full)

**The Kiwi** · 04-08-2012, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by turtle

Drop them down the slot in the medicine cabinet. I don't even hear a "clink" when they hit bottom so there's a good century to go before it gets even half full. And then there are 4 more bathrooms here that can take the "over flow" should this one fill up

Not having started from the bottom of the thread today, I don't know yet whether this thread triggered my curiosity, but cartridges don't fit through the slot, and those have been "the rule" for twenty years-plus. My kids' houses are newer than this old place (it's over fifty years old), and their medicine cabinets have no slit at all. I went looking at Home Depot and at Lowe's after adding a comment to a thread like this one a couple of months ago, and one of the new ones I found for sale was still being sold with a slit in its back side.

(Now, I'm going to hope I never returned to the thread with that thrilling news when I first learned it.)

**erudolph** · 04-08-2012, 09:15 AM

I remember medicine cabinets that had a slot in them, for shoving your used razor blades into them, which would then fall down into the wall. What the heck were they thinking? Not of the future, I guess.